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HRŮZA ZVÍTĚZÍ ("horror will prevail") has been created as a monument to death. Not a fantastical death with promises something beyond this world, but the cessation of being which looms at the end of all lives. As I wrote the songs which became HRŮZA ZVÍTĚZÍ, I was obsessed by my own death, constantly fighting off panic attacks relating to dying, and living in a constant suffocating dread. Every section was written with the explicit goal of conveying this dread, while also pushing my own limits as an artist. Retrospectively, I believe this album to have been meditative and liberating for me: much of the anxiety that once plagued me is now enshrined here, forever.

A corrosive mix of death, doom, psychedelia, and black metal, the Portland quartet’s debut full-length is a bona fide underground monolith that shapeshifts with each listen, all while maintaining its essential heaviness. Bandcamp Album of the Day Feb 1, 2019